MEET THE SAFE-UP PARTNERS
TNO (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research)
Who belongs to your SAFE-UP team?
In SAFE-UP, TNO is leading WP2 on Future safety-critical scenarios and participates with Arturo Tejada (work package lead), Kingsley Adjenughwure, Erwin de Gelder, Jeroen Manders, Gerdien Klunder, Nico Deschle, Marijke van Weperen, Jeroen Hogema, Paco Hamers and Lin Xiao. They combine their expertise on mobility, traffic and vehicle safety from two departments. In WP3, TNO focuses on collision-free path planning based on VRU detection and predictions and, leading task 3.3 on this very topic. The colleagues contributing to this are Emilia Silvas, Robin Smit, Chris van der Ploeg and Arjan Teerhuis, who combine their expertise on planning algorithms, vehicle control, world modelling and prediction models. TNO’s contributions to other work packages are focused on the alignments with these two main development areas.
What does TNO bring to the project?
The main contributions of TNO focus on integrated vehicle safety topics, from safety descriptors for both non-critical and safety-critical situations, to metrics describing traffic interactions and various motion planning algorithms that ensure safe and comfortable driving in different scenarios. We are developing advanced human-driven vehicle models and metrics describing traffic interactions based on models extracted from existing driving data. Using knowledge from WP2 on future critical scenarios, in WP3 we are developing the algorithm for path planning optimization and supporting the active safety demo to evaluate and demonstrate the potential of the new algorithms in decreasing road accidents.
Why did you want to take part in SAFE-UP?
The ambitions of SAFE-UP contribute to the ambitions of TNO’s two departments IVS (Integrated Vehicle Safety) and SUMS (Sustainable Urban Mobility and Safety). At IVS we develop (connected and cooperative) driving technologies and assessment methodologies to maximise safety, throughput, efficiency, comfort and to improve the mobility and logistics ecosystem with 4 distinct programs: Streetproof, (Monitored Deployment for Safe & Social Automated Driving), Streetwise (Scenario-based safety assessment methods for type approval of CCAM systems), Automated Yards (Localization, world modelling, planning and control technologies for more efficient and safe yards) and Connected & Cooperative (Communicating and cooperative applications; linking vehicles with road and data infrastructures). The methods developed in SAFE-UP will enhance several of these programs. Similarly in our SUMS department, SAFE-UP is very well aligned with our Traffic Safety program, focusing on ways to assess traffic safety on the system level and modelling the impact of new modalities and measures.
Which other initiatives are you involved in?
TNO is involved in several other ongoing projects complementary to SAFE-UP, either focusing on safety assessment methodologies or developing (connected and cooperative) driving technologies. For example, HEADSTART (Harmonised European Solutions for Testing Automated Road Transport) (www.headstart-project.eu), HI-DRIVE (www.hi-drive.eu) which aims at testing, demonstrating, and evaluating robust high automation functions in a large set of traffic environments, Next Perception (www.nextperception.eu), where we focus on advanced localization methods, 5G-Mobix (www.5gmobix.com) where we focus on developing and testing automated vehicle functionalities using 5G, and, as well as CERTH/HIT, we are involved in SHOW (SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption), where we develop smart intersection crossing methods enabled by X2V.
Related deliverables
D2.4 Definition of the future use cases: scope and data to build digital twins of use cases
D2.5 DESCRIPTION METRICS FOR TRAFFIC INTERACTIONS
D2.6 USE CASE DEFINITIONS AND INITIAL SAFETY-CRITICAL SCENARIOS